SONG CYCLES
Title: Songs of Experience
Text: William Blake
Performers: Margaret Field & Peter Hill/ Carol Smith & Gavin Mole
Venues: Radio 3, Carnegie Recital Hall New York, Radio London et al
Title: 5 DH Lawrence Songs
Text: DH Lawrence
Performers: Anne MacKay & Kathron Sturrock
Venue: Wigmore Hall
Title: Travels
Text: Own
Performers: Carol Smith & Geoffrey Parsons
Venue: International Symposium of Concert Song, Exeter
Title: Dog's Life
Text: Own
Performers: Carol Smith & Geoffrey Parsons
Venue: Ewell Library, Surrey
Title: Spring Songs for Children
Text: Own
Performers: Various (also arrangements for Carol Smith, Julius Drake & Nicholas Daniel)
Venue: Radio 4, Radio 5, numerous schools
Title: The Snow is Rising
Text: Edward Lowbury
Performers: Simon Birchall & the Strange String Quartet
Venue: British Music Information Centre, London & GSMD
Broadcasts
Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 5, BBC Radio London, Devonair, BBC Radio Devon and Westcountry Television.
Awards and Prizes
SCHOLARSHIPS, FUNDING AWARDS and PRIZES from many organisations including:
COPUS (Committee on the Public Understanding of Science)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada
The Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust
The Royal Philharmonic Society (Composition Prize)
The Guildhall School (Scholarships and Alexander Grosz Composition Prize)
short-listed for
The Mendelssohn Scholarship (1 of 3)
Artists
The many Artists who have commissioned and/or performed the music of David Haines include:
Geoffrey Parsons, Nicholas Daniel, Anne MacKay, Julius Drake, John Oakley-Tucker, Kathron Sturrock, Philip Blake-Jones, Margaret Field, Fiona O'NeillHill
and his music has featured in recital/reading performances by
Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Glover, Prunella Scales
Immodest quotes
Geoffrey Parsons: “…there is a wonderful tenderness and humanity… a huge range of rhythmic imagination which I find endlessly fascinating and effective…”
Christopher Headington: “…"as for Mr Haines' music, it is vital in rhythm but melodious too... There is not a weak link here nor a dull moment…”
Buxton Orr F.G.S.M.: “... a unique talent for the setting of English texts. ... I persuaded him to devote himself full time to composition. This is definitely not the sort of advice I lightly give, and in fact have never done so before.”